Israel attacks UN position in Lebanon (merged)

Unlike Hizbollah, Israel does have a history of attacking the UN.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4062680.html

BEIRUT, Lebanon — A U.N.-run observation post near the border was struck during fighting between Israel and Hezbollah militants on Friday, while Israel pushed ahead with airstrikes on Lebanon and warned people in the south to flee as it prepared for a likely ground invasion to set up a deep buffer zone.

The Israeli army said Hezbollah rockets hit the U.N. post near Zarit, just inside Israel, but a U.N. officer said it was an artillery shell fired by the Israeli Defense Force. The facility was severely damaged, but nobody was injured as the Ghanian troops manning the post were inside bomb shelters at the time of the strike, the U.N. official said.

The U.N. official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation, said an artillery shell fired by the Israeli Defense Force “impacted a direct hit on the U.N. position overlooking Zarit.”

An Israeli Defense Force spokesman said the position was hit by rockets fired by Hezbollah guerrillas at northern Israel. The differing accounts could not immediately be reconciled.

In 1996, during an Israeli air and artillery offensive against Lebanon, artillery blasted a U.N. base at Qana in southern Lebanon, killing more than 100 Lebanese civilians who had taken refuge with the peacekeepers.

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Israel is not only losing this war militarily, but it has also lost the PR war. Hundreds of thousands of foreign citizens from 20 different countries have had to be evacuated from Lebanon due to the Israeli land, sea and air assault, and now we have this attack on the UN personnel.

Shame on Israel.

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Oh…we will do some investigation…[Israel & US & UN]… :smiley:

Rest of the World: Who cares! :hula: :hula:

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A mis-hit. No casualties..that's good news.

Israelis deliberately bomb UN post (killing four): Annan

Israelis have crossed all bounds of civilized behavior and have not left anything to imagination vis-a-vis emulating Nazis...What are these murderers going to stop at? What next, nuking Lebanon????

From CNN.com:

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he was "deeply distressed" by the "apparently deliberate" strike*.*
"This coordinated artillery and aerial attack on a long-established and clearly marked U.N. post at Khiyam occurred despite personal assurances given to me by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that U.N. positions would be spared Israeli fire," he said in a statement.
"Furthermore, General Alain Pelligrini, the U.N. force commander in south Lebanon, had been in repeated contact with Israeli officers throughout the day on Tuesday, stressing the need to protect that particular U.N. position from attack."

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I'm not impressed. This blatant aggression on Lebonon must stop.

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Meh, its okay. Its Israel. Poor old jews have suffered for 1000s of years. Anything they do now is automatically justified.

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The BBC reported that:

  1. Israel shelled this UN position 14 times, which is why the UN troops went into the bunker

  2. Israel then bombed the bunker, killing or injuring those inside

  3. Israel then shelled the UN rescue team that was trying to find survivors

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5215366.stm

Re: Israelis deliberately bomb UN post (killing four): Annan

why would the israelis deliberatley shell a UN post?

what exactly do they gain from this except bad press?

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^ why indeed..why do they do all this stuff in the first place. Maybe because there's enough idiots going around accepting their actions and even believing that they are just ? :)

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no i doubt that

even their generous actions are scene as a jewish scheme

such as when they tried to help Egypt with its irrigation and agriculture problems and muslim clerics in egypt thought it was a jewish conspiracy to poison them or something like that

so for them to deliberately attack a UN post does not serve Israeli interests

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It's fine...It was done by the Zionists, so it's acceptable...

But ask what does a resistance fighter in Iraq get by blowing up innocents? The answer would be: Because they are terrorists...

There is no way to wash off propaganda brainwashing...The answers are writ, the best one chosen and then spread all around...

Arguing with a brainwashed person is like arguing with a headphone...

Why did Israel bomb a bus full of children with a white sheet outside leaving the UN compound? Why did Israelis bomb residential neighbourhoods in Beirut where it is known there can be no Hizbullah as they are all in the south? Why did Israel bomb the UN headquarter?

The answer is simple: Because it can...

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better question is why hasnt Israel nuked Beirut, they certainly can do that?

or why havent they carpet bombed Gaza they certainly can do that

why havent they launched nuclear missiles at Tehran from their Dolphin Submarines, they certainly can do that

and absorb any retaliation with their Arrow II missile defense shield

but every country in the world will turn against Israel, even USA will.....

so just because Israel can do something doesnt mean it can.....

as for attacking children, it was most probably an accicdent

after all Arab TV loves showing dead children and showing the Jews did it....

why would Israel deliberately kill innocent people and then have Arab TV magnify that incident X100 and broadcast it around the arab world riling up sentiment against Israel.....

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Because it can and knows there are people like you willing to believe the justifications…

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What exactly is Israel trying to gain by destroying a UN post? Looks like they've lost it after being totally stunned by Hezbollah's resistance. This pathetic excuse for a nation should be stripped of UN membership.

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UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon contacted Israeli troops 10 times before an Israeli bomb killed four of them, an initial UN report says.

The UN report says each time the UN contacted Israeli forces, they were assured the firing would stop.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5217176.stm

Sure, it was an innocent mistake that they were bombed by a precision guided missile after being assured the firing would stop.

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Israel has attacked UN posts several times before in Lebanon, along with churches and mosques. This is nothing new.

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possibly because Israel prefers nato / "coalition" peacekeeping troops over UN ones and wishes to sour relations with UN beforehand?

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I don't know why the leaders of the world these days are yapping about another occupation force for Lebanon. Have they not seen the results of that in Iraq?

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Nuking a country usually ends up spreading radiation across the region, I doubt Israel would want to that to country so close to it.

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but every country in the world will turn against Israel, even USA will.....
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I doubt USA will, how are you so sure, given the record of USA supporting terrorist states?

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as for attacking children, it was most probably an accicdent
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How do you know? Was Qana an accident?

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after all Arab TV loves showing dead children and showing the Jews did it....

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If the Jews didn't do it, who did? Martians?